other must be enlarged. In the case of India, especially, there is the most urgent need of European mind and intelligence, to regulate, mature, and discipline the congregations of Native Converts: the maxim-" Native Agency and European Superintendence"-is as true of the Christian army, as of the soldiery of India.

The practical question therefore returns upon us-How will the agency for carrying on this blessed work be supplied? The work itself is evidently of God. It cannot, therefore, stop. It is His prerogative to send forth Labourers into His harvest. He now offers to the Church of England the high privilege of taking the lead in this work; but if she do not respond to the call, may not the slighted privilege be conferred upon others?

Already the kingdom of Wurtemburgh, with a population not exceeding 1,800,000, has sent forth above 120 zealous Missionaries, many of them in the service of this Society. The Church at home in that State, so far from being impoverished, has been all the time gathering fresh strength, and is at this day better able than ever to furnish fresh Labourers.

It might appear invidious to point out other sources, already apparent, from whence an abundant supply may be furnished, if the Church of England do not know its day.

But however this appeal may be received by the members of the Church of England at large, let not that comparatively small number of her members on whom the support of Missions has hitherto rested be discouraged. It is impossible that they should contemplate the statements which have now been made, without lifting up their hearts in praise and thanksgiving to Him who has honoured their imperfect endeavours with so large a measure of success; nor without being quickened to renewed and enlarged exertions in a cause of which

the recompense is so abundant. And let them not despair of being able yet to accomplish greater things, even though the Church at large may be still backward in the cause. Let them remember the Fathers and Founders of the Church Missionary Society, who, in a day of far deeper and more extensive apathy, established this Society. They rested their hopes upon the principles which they laid as the foundation of their endeavours the very same Protestant and Evangelical principles upon which the blessed Reformation of our Church was conducted.

The principles of the Society have ever been its real strength. And there is good reason for affirming, that at no past period since the Reformation have these principles been so widely recognised, or so powerful in operation, in the Church of England, as at the present day. Let the friends of the Society trust to this power as the Fathers of the Society trusted; and let them not doubt that success will crown their endeavours, according to the new openings and calls of the present day.

It is often found to be a stimulus and encouragement to exertion to place before the view some definite object which may be proved to be within our reach. If the conversion of the whole world be too large an enterprise, let the Protestant Missionary Societies of England keep in view, as the grand object proposed to this Christian country, THE CONVERSION OF BRITISH INDIA TO THE FAITH OF CHRIST DURING THE PRESENT

GENERATION.

The stupendous amount of British Power and British Influence in India, designate Great Britain as the privileged nation from whence the streams of life should flow.

The complete organization of the United Church of England and Ireland throughout the Indian Empire; the wealth of her members; the number of her Ministers; and her vast supe

riority over every other Protestant Church, in all which constitutes the power of expansion; now place her in the forefront of the glorious work to which she is called, and which has been so auspiciously commenced.

VII-SPECIAL APPEAL FOR ENLARGED CONTRIBUTIONS, AND FOR ADDITIONAL MISSIONARY LABOURERS.

1. The Church Missionary Society earnestly appeals to all those who are willing to take part in the good work to supply PECUNIARY MEANS for the enlargement of its Missions.

The present income of the Society is barely sufficient to support its present Establishment. If enlargement is to be attempted, enlarged funds must be supplied. Nor should they be scantily supplied for such a cause. This object should not be regarded as one among many rival objects of benevolence. It is a clear inference, from the statements already made, that the Mission Cause now stands pre-eminent as a means of most rapidly advancing the Redeemer's kingdom.

The scale of contribution, under this view, will be greatly enlarged by those who have wealth at their disposal; and many will be stimulated to make personal sacrifices, which, in a less momentous cause, they could not be expected to incur. It may be confidently affirmed, that, though many friends of the Society now give to the utmost of their power from their personal resources, there are none who might not do more than they have done to make known the principles and the success of the Society, and so to call forth the contributions of others who have been hitherto less active in the cause through ignorance or inadvertency.

2. Equally urgent is the call for MISSIONARY LABOURERS - for men of zeal-of personal devotion to Christ-of energy of constitution-men prepared to endure hardness.

If a large addition of Missionaries were at once sent to Tinnevelly and Krishnaghur, the most important results might be expected. In other India Missions of the Society devoted / men are labouring alone, without a brother Missionary to support and cheer them; whereas it is always found that the Divine pattern-set on two different occasions, see Mark vi. 7. and Luke x. 1—of sending out preachers of the Gospel, two and two, has many important advantages beyond the separate employment of solitary Missionaries.

In New Zealand, and in West Africa, the number of Missionaries is inadequate to the work opening before them.

The claims of China are of the most interesting as well as of the most important kind; and might well serve, if they were the only obligations resting upon the Church, to stir up the Missionary zeal of her members. Two Missionaries have been sent out by this Society: the health of one has already failed, and one remains a solitary Labourer in the midst of China.

An appeal is therefore made to the younger Clergy who are now labouring at home. Let them calmly compare the statements in the foregoing pages with the results of their own spheres of labour, and ask themselves whether there be not a special call upon those, before whom the way is providentially open, to go and labour where the Lord is pouring down the richest showers of blessing; where the labourers are so few compared with those at home; and where, to adopt the words of the Bishop of Calcutta-" The whole harvest languishes for the want of Reapers."

To the Universities ef this land the Society would also appeal with all the earnestness which the occasion demands. When the student has completed his academical studies, and revolves in his mind the anxious question, How can I best consecrate my talents to the glory of God and to the good of

my fellow-creatures? where can I best make my Pound to gain Ten Pounds? let the Missionary field of labour be contemplated, and compared with those prospects which a Curacy, or educational pursuits, or, it may be, a rural Incumbency,. present to the mind.

But the appeal must be extended to all those whose hearts. the Lord has touched with a lively concern for the salvation of the Heathen. There are many who have not enjoyed the benefits of an academical education, who yet possess an aptitude to acquire and to impart knowledge, and a physical constitution fitted for study, and for the risks of a foreign climate. The society will gladly receive such as students into the Institution established for this purpose at Islington; where they will be wholly supported and educated with a view to their ordination by the Bishop of London as Missionaries, or, if it shall appear more advisable, to their employment as Schoolmasters.

The supply of students at this Institution is, at the present time, far below the number which it is capable of receiving.

Let none be withheld from offering himself to this work by the thought, too commonly entertained, that there is so much work to be done at home, that, if Missionaries go forth, there will be a lack of zeal, and labour for the ministrations of our own Church. The very small number of those who can be sent abroad, compared with the whole amount of Ministers, and candidates for the Ministry, at home, may well allay all such apprehensions.

But let it also be remembered, that there is a REACTION in Missionary labours from which the most important blessings may be expected to accrue to our own land. The kingdom of Wurtemburgh has been alluded to as presenting an illustration of this fact. And let it never be forgotten, that the great promise, on which everything rests in respect of the Church at